CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 7O9 



from Cape Blossom eastward to the head of Kowak River, Kotze- 

 bue Sound, Alaska. {GrinTiell) 



Breeding Notes. — I have nests with sets taken in the Mac- 

 kenzie delta by the Rev. I. O. Stringer and Mr. Young. Mr. 

 Stringer found a nest with three eggs, 6o miles north of Point 

 Separation, Mackenzie River, on June 12th, 1896. This nest was in 

 a birch tree two feet from the ground. The nest is a deep cup- 

 shaped structure of dry grass and mud. I have another nest and 

 eggs that was built three feet from the ground in -a willow grow- 

 ing on the banks of Peel River. This was taken June 23rd, 1898. 

 Another nest and three eggs were found by Mr. Stringer at the 

 terminus of the Cariboo Hills, Mackenzie delta, June 15th, 1B97. 

 {W.Raim.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Two; taken at Old Wives' Creek, Assa., in May, 1895, by Mr. 

 W. Spreadborough. 



One set of three eggs taken at Whale River, James Bay, in June, 

 1896, by Mr. George Bouchier. 



757a. Bicknell's Thrush. 



Hylocichla alicia bicknelli Ridgw. 1882. 

 One specimen only known to be taken, by Mr. Robert Elliott, 

 Bryanston, Ont., September 19th, 1898. {W. E. Saunders.) 



758. Russet-backed Thrush, 



Hylocichla ustulata (Nutt.) Ridgw. 1880. 

 Abundant at Agassiz, B.C., after May loth, 1889; very common 

 at Spence's Bridge and Kamloops, B.C., breeding in bushes along 

 the Thompson River; common at Chilliwack and along the river 

 to the head of Chilliwack Lake; only one observed at Huntington 

 on the Lnternational Boundary in the autumn of 1901; first seen 

 at Victoria, Vancouver Island, May 5th, 1893, and common by the 

 I2th; an abundant summer resident, found at Nanaimo, Comox, 

 Sooke and Stubb's Island in September. (Spreadborough^ At 

 present this bird is known only from the coast of the southeastern 

 portion of the territory where Bischoff obtained several speci- 

 mens, in the vicinity of Sitka. {Nelson.) Tolerably common along 

 Indian River, Sitka, Alaska, and on some of the small islands in 



